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What Where When-sday – Nathan Aspinall – 02/08/2023

Nathan Aspinal, associate conductor for the Nashville Symphony talks Dancing in the Street: Music of Motown

Keeping you up to date with the happenings in Nashville with another edition of What Where When-sday. From Death Cab for Cutie at the Ryman, Fitz and the Tantrums at Brooklyn Bowl, legendary Motown artist Gladys Knight at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and a whole lot more you can find on our events page down below.

Speaking of Motown, our special guest for What Where When-sday this week is Nathan Aspinall, associate conductor for the Nashville Symphony. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Dancing in the Street: Music of Motown with the symphony performing classics from Motown greats like Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and of course Martha Reeves and the Vandellas with Dancing in the Street.

Nathan joins us to walks us through the process of coordinating these group of musicians for the show, his favorite piece of music to conduct, and what do you want audiences to take away from this performance? Listen to our interview with Nathan Aspinall above the article and check out more events happening this week down below.

 

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